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Beyond Compliance Symposium – The Harm Mitigation Holarchy: Human Security, Protection of Civilians, and Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response | Posted : Sat, 11/09/2024 - 6:18pm
War as a Non-State-Centric Concept of Contemporary International Law | Posted : Mon, 09/30/2024 - 1:33pm
Will AI fundamentally alter how wars are initiated, fought and concluded? | Posted : Thu, 09/26/2024 - 4:21pm
Transcending weapon systems: the ethical challenges of AI in military decision support systems | Posted : Tue, 09/24/2024 - 3:03pm
Exploding Pagers and the Law | Posted : Thu, 09/19/2024 - 2:53pm
Targeting in an Urban Environment: Why Weaponeering and Tactics Matter | Posted : Fri, 09/06/2024 - 1:02pm
The risks and inefficacies of AI systems in military targeting support | Posted : Wed, 09/04/2024 - 2:17pm
The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems | Posted : Tue, 09/03/2024 - 11:47am
Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them | Posted : Thu, 08/29/2024 - 9:43am
Space Privateers or Space Pirates? Armed Conflict, Outer Space, and the Attribution of Non-State Activities | Posted : Fri, 07/26/2024 - 12:13pm
The War Crime of Starvation – The Irony of Grasping at Low Hanging Fruit | Posted : Thu, 05/16/2024 - 3:32pm
War on the coastline: mitigating civilian harm in the littorals | Posted : Fri, 05/19/2023 - 2:58am
Year Ahead – Emerging Technologies and the Collection of Battlefield Evidence | Posted : Fri, 01/13/2023 - 2:23pm
How Does ‘Matter’ Matter In International Conflict and Security? An Examination of the Importance of Mosques | Posted : Fri, 01/13/2023 - 2:21pm
The Forgotten Histories of the Codification of International Humanitarian Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America | Posted : Sat, 10/08/2022 - 5:22pm
What Is a Mass Grave? Why Protect Mass Graves? How to Protect Mass Graves? | Posted : Mon, 07/11/2022 - 8:18pm
The Human Factor: The Enduring Relevance of Protecting Civilians in Future Wars | Posted : Fri, 07/01/2022 - 5:54pm
New Armed Conflict in DR Congo: A Renewed Call for Civilian Protection | Posted : Thu, 06/30/2022 - 10:57am
Compilation of Countries’ Statements Calling Russian Actions in Ukraine “Genocide” | Posted : Fri, 05/20/2022 - 1:10pm
Russian Leaders Know They’re Committing War Crimes. Their Laws of War Manual Says So. | Posted : Tue, 04/26/2022 - 11:04am
Looking for answers: accounting for the separated, missing and dead in international armed conflicts | Posted : Mon, 04/11/2022 - 5:13pm
Russia, the Int’l Criminal Court, and the Malign Legacy of the U.S. “War on Terror” | Posted : Fri, 04/01/2022 - 4:42pm
Germany tries Syrian doctor for torture | Posted : Thu, 01/20/2022 - 10:12am
Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare | Posted : Thu, 01/20/2022 - 10:02am
‘They don’t want to be martyrs’: A Q&A on protecting health workers in wartime | Posted : Wed, 01/05/2022 - 2:56pm
Medical and Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Operations | Posted : Fri, 11/26/2021 - 6:39pm
Non-International Armed Conflict: Mexico and Colombia | Posted : Fri, 11/26/2021 - 6:36pm
Reducing Civilian Harm in Urban Warfare: A Commander’s Handbook | Posted : Mon, 10/25/2021 - 9:13pm
La guerra contra las drogas: desafíos para el derecho internacional humanitario | Posted : Mon, 10/25/2021 - 9:09pm
Once Again: Drone Killings and International Law | Posted : Wed, 09/08/2021 - 4:02pm
Famine in Tigray, Humanitarian Access, and the War Crime of Starvation | Posted : Mon, 07/26/2021 - 4:13pm
Extraterritorial Counterterrorism: Policymaking v. Law | Posted : Thu, 07/15/2021 - 12:48pm
A common enemy: aggregating intensity in non-international armed conflicts | Posted : Thu, 04/22/2021 - 2:30pm
The Blurred Battlefield: The Perplexing Conflation of Humanitarian and Criminal Law in Contemporary Conflicts | Posted : Sun, 03/28/2021 - 12:35pm
What Laws Constrain This Russian Private Military Company? | Posted : Wed, 03/24/2021 - 7:03pm
Fixing “Material Support” — Lessons from the Houthi Terror Designation | Posted : Fri, 03/19/2021 - 12:56pm
ICRC engagement with non-State armed groups: why and how | Posted : Fri, 03/05/2021 - 3:55pm
Avoiding Collateral Damage on the Battlefield | Posted : Thu, 02/11/2021 - 1:41pm
The Progress Not Made on Protecting Civilians | Posted : Tue, 02/02/2021 - 5:05pm
Understanding the Australian Inquiry into ADF War Crimes in Afghanistan | Posted : Wed, 11/25/2020 - 1:55pm
COVID-19 and International Law Series: International Humanitarian Law – Treatment of Detainees | Posted : Mon, 11/16/2020 - 2:29pm
A Landmark Report on Starvation as a Method of Warfare | Posted : Sat, 11/14/2020 - 12:24pm
Human Shields and Proportionality: How Legal Experts Defended War Crimes in Sri Lanka | Posted : Thu, 11/12/2020 - 4:53pm
COVID-19 and International Law Series: International Humanitarian Law – Conduct of Hostilities | Posted : Tue, 11/10/2020 - 4:10pm
How Focusing on Non-State Actors Can Change the IHL Narrative | Posted : Thu, 11/05/2020 - 1:02pm
Fragmentation of armed non-State actors in protracted armed conflicts: Some practical experiences on how to ensure compliance with humanitarian norms | Posted : Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:20am
Motive Matters: The Meaning of Attack Under IHL & the Rome Statute | Posted : Mon, 10/26/2020 - 11:11pm
Symposium on Compliance in Armed Conflict: New Avenues to Generate Respect for Humanitarian Norms | Posted : Mon, 10/19/2020 - 4:21pm
The Law of (Future) Armed Conflict: LOAC, Technology, and the Changing Character of Warfare | Posted : Thu, 09/10/2020 - 4:45pm
Automatizing Patterns of Conduct: Can Artificial Intelligence Help Commanders Better Comply with the Principle of Distinction? | Posted : Sun, 08/30/2020 - 11:56pm
Children and war | Posted : Sat, 07/18/2020 - 5:34pm
25 years later, remembering Srebrenica — So we are not condemned to repeat it | Posted : Fri, 07/10/2020 - 10:47pm